Literature at war, 1914-1940
Subtitle: representing the "time of greatness" in Germany
By: Wolfgang G. Natter.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New Haven, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
Subjects: German literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; World War, 1914-1918 -- Germany -- Literature and the war.; Literature and state -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.; War in literature.; Nationalism and literature -- Germany.; Germany -- History, Military -- 20th century.
Description: In this examination of German texts written about the First World War, Wolfgang Natter offers a new understanding of the relationship between culture and warfare. He focuses not only on the literary voices of German authors whose works are found in a library today but also on the wartime agencies, institutions, and individuals that produced and distributed an enormous body of books and printed materials during the First World War, the Weimar period, and the years preceding the Second World War.

Natter argues that the militarization of literature that occurred between 1914 and 1918 and the ways war events reconfigured literary institutions, aesthetics, and cultural politics help to explain how a military ethos could remain vibrant in a defeated Germany and lay the groundwork for another world war.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-267) and index.